Whaaaat!?

[Dave W]

None of you KISS lovers has posted this yet?

Kiss Sells Catalog, Name, Likeness and More to Pophouse Entertainment for $300 Million

That's Bjorn Ulvaeus' Pophouse.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, that KISS would sell out for cash.

[uwe]

300 million bucks is not even that much considering the size of their catalog, but then they have never been that much of an airplay band, but a live gigs and merchandising money making machine (not putting them down because of that, KISS were always a commercial enterprise and that's ok). What was their last single hit, God Gave Rock'n'Roll To You? That was a while ago.

Meanwhile, in Støckhølm, that ABBA guitarist has already gotten his crispbread-soiled hands on KRUNCHY KISS KLASSIKS!!!

[Basvarken]

I really don't give a ****.
Kiss is way over the hill.
Their fans are middle aged men who already own all their records and most likely a bunch of their merchandise too.
Who is going to be interested in their back catalogue or hologram shows?

[gearHed289]

Yeah, I didn't think it was that much money either. But from what I know, they sold half their publishing (I think it was publishing) to Japanese investors in the 90s. I think they're probably doing OK on cash.

[uwe]

There is wealth that has been toiled for less than what Stanley and Chaim have in the bank. Long may their deserved stroke of massel continue.

[Alanko]

Not bad for a band with a guitarist who could only solo in one key.

[uwe]

The NME once wrote "half their songs are in E, the other half in A" in the early days of KISS. Combined with the damning verdict that "KISS are living proof that it takes less skill to play hard rock passably than any other music known to man". 

Not sure that is right though. Aside from the fact that their songs were probably in Eb and Ab because KISS tuned half a step down to accommodate Stanley's voice, wasn't Detroit Rock City in either B or C (or somewhere in between, Bob Ezrin probably messed with the tape speed again)?

Good ole Ace, the way he lurched from note to note on the fretboard and raked from string to string was always highly idiosyncratic, but it never sounded like he actually knew what he was doing (much less do better)! St(r)utter is a case in point, what the hell is he doing there in that riff?



First time I heard it  , I thought something was wrong with the vinyl or maybe he had made a mistake and got stuck on a string playing the riff?  But he plays it like that every effing time and I for one have never been able to replicate it. It sounds weird and "wrong/out of time to me to this day. What is it supposed to be in rhythmic notation? 

[uwe]

I really don't give a ****.
Kiss is way over the hill.
Their fans are middle aged men who already own all their records and most likely a bunch of their merchandise too.
Who is going to be interested in their back catalogue or hologram shows?

Middle aged? I didn't know they had picked up a younger audience by now. When did that happen?

[Basvarken]

Haha, you're right. Should have written elderly men!😂